"Measure of America" looks at health, educational and income factors to determine just how well a city's residents are doing (they also do it for states and Congressional districts), and let's just say Houston isn't doing that well, in terms of the top 10.

"It's tenth, but it's not a bad tenth," Kristen Lewis, co-author of the study, tells Hair Balls. "It's just under Dallas. There''s not a huge difference between cities on the list."